A19 crash in York on 15 March 2001 at 09:35 involving a Ford Transit van
Four vehicles, including a Ford Transit van and a Mercedes 300 van, were involved in a crash on the A19 in York at 09:35 on Thursday 15 March 2001. The 29-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van and a 48-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2001
- Thursday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Transit and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8821, longitude -1.04613, in the YO19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in York
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001120740190
- Council area
- York
- Police force
- North Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 19
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 26 October 1992
At the same spotRef 1992123010753
Serious
KTM RC 125 crash on the A19 in York, 14 March 2025
30 m awayRef 2025122500493
Fatal
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A19 in York, 15 February 2007
36 m awayRef 2007120460048
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A19 in York, 5 April 2015
37 m awayRef 2015120055206
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A19 in North Yorkshire, 19 October 1991
50 m awayRef 1991122920116
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A19 in York, 1 July 2016
53 m awayRef 2016120115615
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 300
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2001120740190 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 2001.